Your lack of compassion and empathy for women is shocking. Do we even matter? Does our safety and well-being even matter to you? You think my comparison was hyperbole? No. I was referring to their ideology. ISIS is less misogynistic than they are, and considering that they’ve fucking murdered people in terrorist…

Men who do things like stalk random 14 year old girls they see on the street to frighten them into thinking they’re about to be kidnapped and raped are too fucking dangerous to be “helped.” Men who plot to rape, then throw acid on the face of- to ensure their psychological torture is life long- random women whose…

That just seems really unlikely. I mean, based on how comics usually work. Which might be an inappropriate comparison, but yeah.

Knowing comic books, I pretty much expected everyone to die. The only thing that strikes me a bit weird is how many people expect only a few deaths (those who will have sequels coming out) to be reversed.

Honestly, you have to talk about it being problematic because that’s why there’s something interesting to dig into. It’s “this movie should be appalling, and here’s why, but in practice it isn’t. Why?” There’s nothing interesting about going “this is a charming movie, bit weird premise.” That’s okay for a review when…

Overboard is SUCH a weird one because yep, it’s terrible in everywhere, but somehow the charm of the actors overcomes all of it. There are a bunch of rom-coms that kind of fall into that category for me...they should be so horrible, but the characters are so warm and charming that you kind of forget it. IQ is like…

You do not understand the male gaze as a concept. Or you do understand it, and you’re choosing to pretend to not understand the difference between “portraying beauty” and “sexually objectifying.” (for one example)

There were always mad dudes, I have to say, but post-kinja you see very few of the good conversations that used to happen in the comments that balanced them out. It’s all just mad dudes refusing to admit they don’t understand a thing and don’t want to.

EXACTLY, thank you

Male gaze fantasies rarely have personality, agency, or inner lives. Because that’s not part of the fantasy. So yeah, I’d say it’s generally mutually exclusive. Because the defining characteristic in the fantasy is “sexy,” which is different than the defining characteristic being something else (strong, brave, clever,…

“women create on the internet” is not the same thing as “the large corporate property depicts and films its male characters the same as...”. It’s a classic part of fandom - to recontextualize, to as henry jenkins put it, act as textual poachers, repurposing something not meant for them and turning them into their own.

You should probably read up on “male gaze” as film criticism. It does not mean “things men look at.” It refers to how things are filmed, and what is prioritized, and who the audience is assumed to be. It’s how you get weird confusing things where (for example) the story is from the point of view of a straight woman,…

Amazon bleeds money on the retail side. It only started turning a profit because it started renting out the cloud services it had had to develop for itself. It’s like if uber ends up making money from licensing its routing/matching technology, not actually from running a taxi service.

I wouldn’t. I wasn’t recommending any of this. I find it morally bankrupt and bad for society and the economy.

Generally the idea is this: burn through money like crazy in order to grow big very very fast. Corner the market! Drive everyone else out of business! Then use your near-monopoly power to make money.

It’s pretty much true of all big start ups and tech companies.

That seems a non-sequitur. My point is, that you can hardly fault others for twisting their arguments into inflammatory exaggerations when you are doing it yourself, equating “studios respond to public demand” (or “people criticize media for lacking”) with the state censorship that characterizes totalitarianism.

Something like that happened to me once, but at a sort of bar & grill kind of place. It had previously been an old favorite, but it had changed hands and the new management sucked big time, as it turned out. Our server was awful - she had this whole attitude like we were inconveniencing her by breathing. My dad and my…

You’re right, it would be totalitarian to have a state censor board through which all media had to be approved. But what was it you were saying about

My faith in the AVC has been restored. Even after the kinjapocalypse, there’s still two comments from people who noticed a tossed off line as something from Angel and knew that both episodes were written by the same person.